You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.